Quote Originally Posted by hacker View Post
We have also had a shitload of advances in medicine since 1918. Ventilators for one. How many people would be dead from covid if we had the same medical care as 1918?
Ventilators would have still been ineffective then. Cytokine storm is what killed people and vast majority in their 20s and early 30s. They died like 2 or 3 days after developing symptoms due to Cytokine storm. Folks that died would change color to blue or black from such a quick depletion of oxygen.

Quote Originally Posted by hacker View Post
700k from 1918-1920
That's the very conservative estimate.

Quote Originally Posted by msstate7 View Post
Yep, and a whole heck of a lot of the elderly that died to covid19 would've been dead already in 1918
Elderly actually survived it much better due to immune systems not being so responsive to flu's invasion into the body. The vast majority of folks that died were in 20s and 30s.

Read The Great Influenza. That flu is much worse than this one. Survival rate for folks in 20s and 30s was almost nonexistent.